Perpetrator Wanted (1931)

A dedicated editor, who is engaged to the daughter of a wealthy senator thrills her father with a lecture about convictions based on circumstantial evidence. When a corpse with a disfigured face is found in the house of the senator, evidence points to the editor. An entertaining thriller with a fairly intricate plot and some critical comments on the practice of the law. Based on the novel "Der geschlossene Ring" by Frank Arnau.

Released

1931-03-12

Genres

Crime

Runtime

85 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Carl Heinz Wolff, Rudolph Cartier, Egon Eis

TMDB rating

5.9/10 from 7 votes